Description
In this painting, showing the outcome of a duel after a costume ball, Gérôme replicates, with slight variations, a composition he had executed for the Duc d'Aumale in 1857. It is dawn on a wintry day in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, and Pierrot succumbs in the arms of the Duc de Guise. A Venetian doge examines Pierrot's wound while Domino clasps his head in despair. To the right, the victorious American Indian departs, accompanied by Harlequin.

Conservation

Date

Description

Narrative

3/31/1943

Treatment

coated; other

1/08/1958

Treatment

other

5/27/1986

Treatment

other

9/23/1996

Examination

cleaned; loss compensation

6/17/1997

Treatment

examined for loan; other

3/29/1998

Loan Consideration

examined for loan

Exhibitions

From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1951.